Matthew Gerring

I'm an experienced professional with a broad range of skills in news media and web application development. I am proactive, creative, highly adaptive, a very fast learner, and a relentlessly resourceful problem-solver.

2012 Debate tweets Analaysis

Created for a final project in a media research course for San Jose State University in 2012.

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Django

MongoDB

D3.js

jQuery

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The Cost of Voter Apathy

Created for the Bi-Coastal Datafest hackathon at Stanford and Columbia, exploring money in politics. My team explored the hypothesis that campaign spending and voter turnout are correlated, and found that they are not, at least in California state politics.

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Urban Prototyping is a series of global festivals promoting tactical urbanism and direct citizen involvement as a way to improve cities. Created as an employee for Gray Area Foundation for the Arts.

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WordPress

jQuery

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Design, programming, content editing

San Francisco Startup Map

Created for San Francisco Innovation Month, this map was created by scraping data from CrunchBase, a central database of startups, and plotting office locations to a map of San Francisco.

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Django

Leaflet

PostgreSQL

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Data gathering, programming, system administration

The Daily Epitaph

Created as part of a project to revive and sustain the instruction of obituary writing at San Jose State University, and to create a central repository of obituaries and historical information about San Jose State alumni.

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Created for the Great Urban Hack for Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, We All Need seeks to humanize residents of the Tenderloin, a San Francisco neighborhood infamous for its concetration of poverty, crime, drug abuse, and mental illness.